Safe and Caring Schools – A Resource for Equity and Inclusion in Manitoba Schools TERMS & CONCEPTS TERMS & CONCEPTS To access and add to an online glossary, go to MyGSA.ca/content/ terms-concepts Terms & Concepts Ableism Bullying Aboriginal Peoples Butch Acceptance Camp Accommodation Chi Chi Gal Ally Chi Chi Man Androgyny Cisgender/Cisgendered Anti-Black Racism Cisnormativity Anti-Discrimination Education Cissexism Anti-Racist Closet/Closeted Anti-Racist Education Colonialism Anti-Semitism Colonization Asexual Coming Out Barrier Creed Batty Fucker Crossdressers (also Cross-Dressers) Batty Man/Batty Bwoy Cyber-Bullying BGLTT Disability Bi Discrimination Bias Diversity Binary Gender System Dominant Group Biological Sex Drag Queen/Drag King Biphobia Duty to Accommodate Bisexual/Bisexuality Dyke Boogaman Equality Boom Bye Bye inna Batty Bwoy Equity Head Ethnicity Bugger Man Faggot Genderism Fairness Genderqueer (also Gender Queer or Gender-Queer) Fassy Hole/Fassie Genetic Sex Female-to-Male (FTM) GLBTQ Feminine Gonads Femme GSA First Nation Harassment Freaky Man Hate Crime Gay Hate Propaganda Gay-Bashing (sometimes Bashing or Queer-Bashing) Hatred Gay-Straight Alliance (or GSA, Heteronormativity sometimes Queer-Straight Alliance Heterophobia or QSA or Human Rights or Diversity Club) Heterosexism Gender Heterosexism and Homophobia Gender Conformity Heterosexual/Heterosexuality Gender Diverse Hijra Gender Dysphoria Homophobia Gender Expression Homosexual/Homosexuality Gender Fluidity Human Rights Gender Identity Identity Gender-Neutral In the Closet Gender Presentation Inclusive Education Gender Role Indian Act Gender Stereotype Intersectionality Intersex/Intersexual Multicultural Education Intervention Oppression Inuit Out Invisible Minority Outed Islamophobia Outing Isolation Pansexual Justice Panthi/Girya Kathoey Passing Kothi/Koti Perceived Gender Identity Lesbian Perceived Sexual Orientation LGBT/GLBT Power LGBTQ Prejudice LGBTTIQQA Pride LGBTQ Positive Space Group Primary Sex Characteristics Lifestyle Privilege Mahu Protected Characteristics Male-to-Female (MTF) Queer Manitoba Human Rights Code Questioning Masculine Race Men who Have Sex with Men Racialization (MSM) Racialized Group Métis Racism Minority Group Racist Misogyny Rainbow Flag MSM Reclaimed Language Religion Tranny (or Trannie) Religious Accommodation Trans Respect Transgender Safe Space Transition Safety Trans Man Same Gender Loving Transperson Secondary Sex Characteristics Transphobia Sex /Assigned Sex Transsexual (or TS) Sex & Gender Transvestite Sex & Gender Binary Trans Woman Sexism Two-Spirit/Two-Spirited Sexual Dysphoria Uzeze (Kitesha) Sexual Minority Visible Minority Sexual Orientation Sexual Prejudice Sexual Reassignment Surgery (or SRS) Social Justice Sodemite Stealth Stereotype Stonewall Straight Systemic Discrimination Third Gender See the Sources section at the end for references. ABLEISM Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination directed against people who have developmental, emotional, physical, sensory, or health-related disabilities. Ableism may be evident in organizational and institutional structures, policies, procedures, and programs, as well as in the attitudes and behaviours of individuals. (OME) ABORIGINAL PEOPLES The descendants of the indigenous or original inhabitants of a particular nation or territory. In Canada the term is used to collectively describe three cultural groups of Aboriginal people– “Inuit”, “Métis People” and “First Nations”. These are three separate peoples with unique heritages, languages, cultural practices, and spiritual beliefs, histories and political goals. (AFN) The 1982 Constitutional Act confers official Aboriginal status on status Indians, non-status Indians, Inuit and Métis. As the indigenous people of Canada, Aboriginal peoples argue that they have collective entitlements which were never extinguished and that they are rightfully entitled to special considerations. (MEAL) ACCEPTANCE Affirmation and recognition of those whose race, religion, nationality, values, beliefs, etc. are different from one’s own. (MEAL) An adjustment made to policies, ACCOMMODATION programs, guidelines, or practices, including adjustments to physical settings and various types of criteria, that enables individuals to benefit from and take part 8 Egale Canada Human Rights Trust in the provision of services equally and to participate equally and perform to the best of their ability in the workplace or an educational setting. Accommodations are provided so that individuals are not disadvantaged or discriminated against on the basis of the prohibited grounds of discrimination identified in the Manitoba Human Rights Code or other, similar grounds. (adapted from OME) ALLY An individual (usually straight) who is supportive of the LGBTQ community. They believe in the dignity and respect of all people, and are willing to stand up in that role. Allies do not identify as members of the groups they are fighting for; e.g. a straight person can be an ally for LGBTQ communities; a lesbian can be an ally for trans communities). (Egale Canada) ANDROGYNY Exhibiting the identity and/or appearance of both male and female, as neither male nor female, or as between male and female; exhibiting behaviors of either or both traditional genders; a descriptive term that many in the GLBTQ community find offensive; see also “Third Gender” and “Two-Spirit.” (AY) ANTI-BLACK RACISM Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination directed against Black people, including people of African descent. Anti-Black racism may be evident in organizational and institutional structures, policies, procedures, and programs, as well as in the attitudes and behaviours of individuals. (CRRF) Safe and Caring Schools – A Resource for Equity and Inclusion in Manitoba Schools 9 ANTI-DISCRIMINATION Educational approaches that seek to eliminate all forms EDUCATION of discrimination based on the prohibited grounds identified in the Manitoba Human Rights Code and the Canadian Charter of Rights and responsibilities and other, similar grounds from an educational system. Other terms such as Anti-Bias and Anti-racism Education may be used to describe such efforts. Anti-discrimination education (see Anti-racism) seeks to identify and change educational policies, procedures, and practices that may unintentionally condone or foster discrimination, as well as the attitudes and behaviours that underlie and reinforce such policies and practices. It provides teachers and students with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to critically examine issues related to discrimination, power, and privilege. Anti-discrimination education promotes the removal of discriminatory biases and systemic barriers for a broad range of groups. (Adapted from OME) ANTI-RACISM Strategies, theories and actions concerned with identifying, challenging, preventing, eliminating, and changing the values, structures, policies, programs, practices, and behaviours that perpetuate individual, institutional and systemic racism as well as the inequities in outcomes racism causes. (MEAL) ANTI-RACIST A general term describing an activity, event, policy or organization combating racism in any form. (MEAL) 10 Egale Canada Human Rights Trust ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION An approach to education designed to eliminate racism in all its forms and challenge social, economic and educational inequalities to which ethnocultural, ethnoracial, and other groups are subject. It permeates all subject areas and school practices. It relies on a systemic approach to change (as opposed to solely the teaching of social issues within curriculum content). One of its primary aims is to promote critical thinking among teachers and students about racism and its origins and issues of power, justice and inequality; challenge racism at all levels – personal, cultural, and institutional. Anti-racist education can also be learned in informal and non-formal educational settings. (MEAL) ANTI-SEMITISM Latent or overt hostility or hatred directed towards individual Jews or the Jewish people (not to all Semitic peoples), leading to social, economic, institutional, religious, cultural or political discrimination. Antisemitism has also been expressed through individual acts of physical violence, vandalism, the organized destruction of entire communities and genocide. (CRRF) ASEXUAL A person who does not experience sexual attraction or who has little or no interest in sexual activity. (Egale Canada) Safe and Caring Schools – A Resource for Equity and Inclusion in Manitoba Schools 11 BARRIER An intended or unintended, overt or covert obstacle that may hinder a person’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis. Examples of barriers include: (a) a physical barrier; (b) an architectural barrier; (c) an information or communications barrier; (d) an attitudinal barrier; (e) a technological barrier; (f) a barrier established or perpetuated by an enactment, a policy or a practice. (adapted from OME) BATTY FUCKER Slang for “queer man” that became popularized through homophobic dancehall music and generally only has negative connotations. (Egale Canada) BATTY MAN/BATTY BWOY Slang for “queer man” that became popularized through homophobic dancehall music and generally only has negative connotations. (Egale Canada) BGLTT Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Two-Spirited. (CTF) BI Slang term for people with a bisexual orientation and who self- identify as bisexual. (AY) BIAS A subjective opinion, preference, prejudice or inclination, either for or against